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Santa Monica
Santa Monica
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Here's a place where real-life Lebowskis sip white Russians next to martini-swilling Hol-
lywood producers, and celebrity chefs and soccer mom's shop shoulder to shoulder at
abundant farmers markets. It's a small city with forward-thinking social and environmental
ideals (and fascist parking codes) alive with surf rats, skate punks, string bikinis, yoga
freaks, psychics, street performers and a prodigious homeless population. Most, if not all,
of which can be found along a stretch of sublime coastline that cradles the city to the west,
and laps at the heels of an undulating mountain range that defines the entire LA area to the
north. This is Santa Monica - LA's cute, alluring, hippie-chic little sister, its karmic coun-
terbalance and, to many, its salvation.
Once the very end of the mythical Route 66, and still a tourist love affair, the Santa
Monica Pier ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ;
) dates
310-458-8900; www.santamonicapier.org ;
 
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